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To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show howContinue reading “Concessions”

The coastline of southern California between San Diego and Los Angeles lies generally in a north/south direction, but as it proceeds northward, it slowly curves toward the west until at Santa Barbara, the coastline lies in an east/west direction. At the extremity of this westward curve lies Point Conception. The Chumash call it Humqaq, ”TheContinue reading “of the Western Gate”

It turns out that US military and intelligence agencies have a long history of using UFOs as a psychological instrument, having discovered their hyper-mimetic qualities in the 1950s. Decades before Doty’s variations on the theme, UFOs were a well-known self-replicating cultural trope capable of infecting individual and cultural consciousness and spreading like a virus. —Continue reading “Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media – Journal #147”

Days after Abe’s assassination, the Japanese media lifted a longtime taboo about reporting on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s deep links to the Unification Church, the anticommunist religious cult founded in 1954 (with assistance from the Korean CIA) by the self-proclaimed Korean messiah Sun Myung Moon. Soon, these shady relationships, and the politics behind them,Continue reading “WHO WAS SHINZO ABE? – THE SHORROCK FILES”

It is as if Trump’s fascist propaganda here is less oriented toward creating anxiety and rage than alleviating it. — Read on joelowndes.org/fascisms-soothing-affect/

Doug Enaa Greene gives an overview and critique of the political journey of Michael Harrington, founder of the Democratic Socialist of America, and his influence on reformist socialism to this day. — Read on mronline.org/2019/05/29/michael-harrington-and-his-afterlives/

Ho Xuan Huong (胡春香; 1772–1822) was a Vietnamese poet born at the end of the Lê dynasty. The facts of her life are difficult to verify. It seems that … Snail Trails – Brief poems by Ho Xuan Huong

Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system. — Read on http://www.publicbooks.org/autofiction-writers-of-the-world-unite/

In this interview, Louis Allday and Patrick Higgins reflect on Syria and its complicated relationship to Palestine, covering the overthrow of the country’s government in December 2024, which was the culmination of over a decade of US-led aggression and subversion against it, to why the fate of Syria is so important, not only for itsContinue reading ““Sectarianism is the enemy of national liberation”: An Interview with Patrick Higgins on Syria, Imperialism and the Palestinian Cause — Ebb”

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